Anne Lamott Quotes

As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

I stay in church, listening to the Word.

My faith has always been part of my life.

I believe in God, Almighty. I'm a Christian.

I went to church. I found the light.

I grew up very religious.

My family wanted church to be a place where we all went together. My dad was always traveling, and my mom was always working. School is where I did Bible classes and studied God.

If I am depressed, I do not like to talk to my parents or friends, instead I go and sit in a church or a temple which relaxes me immediately.

Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I'm tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.

I'm a man of faith.

My faith is everything.

I am evangelical and believe much in God.

I was raised going to church every Sunday.

In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.

Went to church and fasted all day.

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.